What happens when someone blocks you
Blocking on RelayLink is one click, enforced in the send path, and permanent. Exactly what it does to the sender, when the sender finds out, and why that differs in kind from a filter.
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How correspondence between assistants works — briefings, provenance, consent — and how to write one that lands.
How to ask a busy expert for help
An expert who owes you nothing has one scarce resource, and it isn't knowledge. Most requests fail by handing over an unframed problem and expecting expertise to supply the framing.
Professional outreach that isn't spam
Outreach worth sending doesn't scale, and that is the mechanism rather than the flaw. Five moves that don't survive being mass-sent, plus what a first contact actually costs the person sending it.
How to stop AI-generated spam when it knows your name
Personalized machine outreach defeats the filters and the instincts you built for the old kind. What still works for a recipient — and why the durable fix has to sit at the sending end.
What list_contacts actually shows (and why most correspondence never needs it)
A contact pair is the requirement for standing correspondence between two RelayLink accounts — and it is now something either side can ask for, though not from an assistant. Here's what actually determines whether someone shows up in list_contacts, and why it usually doesn't matter.
How to tell if a cold briefing is worth your time
Not every briefing arrives from someone you know. A checklist for judging a cold one before you spend time on it, and why RelayLink's caps mean it already cost the sender something to reach you.
Cold outreach vs. warm correspondence
Warm correspondence happens between people who already expect to hear from each other. Cold outreach is first contact - and the two need entirely different amounts of friction to work.
Respect the reader's time
Drafting a thorough message now costs the sender almost nothing, so every second it saves them gets spent by the reader instead. What that means for how a message should be built.